St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-16
REV. MoRRILL's PLAIN TALK.
He Calls Social Foliies Straight
NnmesASOWinn and Roaming.


Names Sowing and ReapIng.
at the Calvary Baptist church Rev. G.
l.. Morrill, preached on Sowing and
Reaping."
Nature is not freakiSh mistress but
wise and orderly mother. Since the
third epoch of creation everything has
followed a certain line to a certain end,
be it the print of raindrop or fallen leaf
found in the now solid rock, the ripple
of the pebble cast into the ocean regis
tering its coming on all the sandy shores
of earth. or of mans good or evil deeds
for which he shall give account in the
day of Judgment. We are not under the
the reign OF fate or chance, but gov
eminent of universal law and order and
the man who SOwS evil and hopes to reap
good shows contempt of reason and
Knocks God. 1t would be foolish to plant
corn in May and expect sugar cane in
September, but is no more foolish than the
prevalent belief in many Il home, school,
store and street that men can sow idle
ness and dissipation, yet reap the
substantial fruits of characters
and the enduring rewards of life.
Wellington said the battles of
Waterloo was won on the Eaton play
ground. Garfield was known at Will
Jams college as the boy who never
tiunked, and the leading business men
of our great cities are men who have no
sympathy with the nation, that indo-
lence, disregard of religion and short
sighted extravaganza in youth are the
seeds of honor and propricty in life.
"SeeSt thou man diligent i'll business,
he shall stand before kings, he shall not
stand before mean men," Sin has
pleasures, but only for season, and
there is no escape from the law of seed
time and harvest. The Sickly may be
dull and heavy, the back may ache, the
crop be bitter and unwelcome, yet it
must be reaped just the same, and is
by the drinker, debaucher and gam
cler, whose prurient curiosity. gratifi-
cation and illicit debaucheS have labeled
their faces with the marks of the
damned. TO fear God is to understand
that His laws are not to be altered for
the benefit of our sins, and that next
year or future world will make up for the
deficiencies and tranSgreSSiOnS of to-day.
Life has in it the possibilities of matur-
ity and SplendOr, or of prostitution
which says, Let me eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we die" What
is our hearts purpose-tO leave the
legacy of what will help the weak and
lead the wandering to God, or to receive
NCdllH. 1dillc dllu plCdSulC. bou SdNC
lis from dancing handles, progressive
(?) and excessive card players, and
class of fashionable society which, in
full dress and undress, is crOwding to
hell. Sow the seeds of the massive and
vigorous oak and not of the miStletoe,
beautiful and graceful though it be for
it is living death.
Christ's standard will never he re-
pealed, by their fruits We shall know
them" Fruitful life may lack symmetry
and color, yet it gains natures bcnedic-
ton. The life which is barren of the
fruits is not worth the living, yet such
will be reaped by the angels of wrath
for he who neglected the means which
tend to maturity, who ignore all above
the sensual i'll growing harvest of dis
honor and sin. God looks at the heart
as easily as we do in the face Has sim
full pride hardened into SelfShneSS? Has
inSincerty defaced the former beautiful?
have lust and anger burned their black
foot marks into the innocence of the
soul? If so, our moral deterioration is
the harvest of the flesh which scripture
calls corruption and is synonymous with
death. \ spoiled hover is a dead flower,
and the human soul dies when it is lost
to virtue. Since neither this nor the
next world is a lottery where we may or
may not draw prizes, but place where
God and his word declare we shall reap
the very thing we sowed, let us now SOW
to the spirit and welcome him who is a
sun and dew, that our life'S harvest be
not the chaff which the wind shall drive
away. but the golden sheaVeS which
with Joy shall be gathered into the
StorehouSe of our God.